Angela Eagle is expected to challenge Jeremy Corbyn on Monday. Owen Smith and possibly others, too, could follow in her wake.

That's at least the next two months now taken up with ANOTHER Labour leadership contest, one that could easily see the party end up with the same result: Corbyn in charge.

I asked one well-placed Labour MP earlier if there was a plan for that eventuality and the answer was, as far as they were aware, no. That doesn't inspire confidence that the next two months will be time well-spent.

Here's some things Labour could be doing instead.

Deciding its stance on Trident

With typical Tory canniness, a vote on Trident has been called for July 18.

The government is kicking Labour when it's down, and why not. That's politics. Currently they are considerably better than Labour at politics, despite also sucking at it themselves.

Labour has in fact been reviewing its policy on Trident since the last Labour conference, although it has been pointed out by some pro-renewal MPs that the party did vote in favour of renewal in Brighton last year.

But the party now faces a parliamentary showdown on the issue. The country needs to know what the opposition thinks.

The opposition, however, doesn't know what it thinks. It should be working that out.

Demanding Jeremy Hunt is sacked

This is another massive blow for Jeremy Hunt and a gift to the opposition. While Labour has been busy holding doomed internal 'peace talks' the government (whatever that currently is) has merrily announced its intention to impose the contract anyway.

Certainly last time the doctors went out, they had the weight of public opinion behind them.

So shouting about the imposition of a contract the medical profession says is unsafe and discriminatory ought to be an open goal for Labour. They should be calling for Jeremy Hunt's head on a plate.

Currently Labour's shadow health secretary is Diane Abott though, who has of late been more consumed with trying to keep her leader in post.

Here's an example, for interest, of what Diane Abbott was up to a few days before she took on the health role.

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Pushing the government on its post-Osborne commitment to the north

The people pushing Osborne – and his successors – for commitment are northern Tory council leaders, northern Labour council leaders, council chief executives, business and... well. The press.

But I've heard barely anything from Labour in general on it.

That's partly because the leadership never understood what Osborne was attempting to do in the north – so couldn't offer a coherent analysis of its flaws or its strengths.

As far as I have been able to tell, the leadership took a view somewhere between outright hostility towards northern devolution and total apathy.

No wonder, then, that as usual local leaders in places like Greater Manchester are having to steer the ship themselves, as they have now been doing for years.

Demanding to know how much Brexit cash will go into the NHS

This is so. Obvious.

The Leave campaign promised – ON THE SIDE OF A BUS – to put £350m a week more cash into the NHS.

Since then leading Brexiteers such as Iain Duncan Smith have distanced themselves from that pledge.

How much is going to go into the NHS, when, how and where? What does Theresa May have to say on this?

What does Andrea Leadsom, flagbearer of the Leave campaign, think?

This is a fundamental point that could potentially undermine the entire validity of the referendum result: if massive amounts of money are not ploughed into the health service then the nation – in part – voted to leave on a lie.

Some Labour MPs have raised this in the Commons. But again, with the party in disarray, Labour's loudest voices have been shouting about their own problems rather than those of the country.

Capitalising on the fact the Tories' key austerity policy has been ditched

This is pretty much the one thing Labour agreed on: that he should scrap his (highly unrealistic) plans to achieve a surplus by 2020.

To be fair, Jeremy Corbyn has mentioned this in parliament. But where are the senior Labour figures on TV, on the radio, in the press, screaming it from the rooftops?

Oh yes. Most of them resigned four days before Osborne's biggest u-turn yet. Meanwhile Jeremy Corbyn is busy warring with the PLP and otherwise primarily concerned with delivering apologies on Iraq.

Working out how to speak to working class voters

This is an existential matter for Labour and one that cannot be solved overnight.

But the party has had warning after warning on this and each time has failed to heed the inexorable drift of a large part of its core vote towards either Ukip or nobody at all.

The fact Jim McMahon won the Oldham by-election last year does not necessarily mean that Labour in general (or Jeremy Corbyn) can still speak to its core vote; it just means Jim McMahon can.

That referendum vote, in which Labour area after Labour area voted against the party's stance, should be a wake-up call.

Perhaps Labour can't represent them anymore. But it's a question that needs an answer before the next general election.

Pushing for answers on the single market and immigration

Cameron has made clear he favours as much access as possible to the single market.

Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom take a harder line, although we don't really know what their game plan will be in negotiations with Europe.

That's one key reason why we need to know what Labour hopes to get from those negotiations.

Does it want continued access to the single market and with it the inevitable free movement of labour that that implies? Does it want some kind of fudge in which – as has been suggested in some quarters – Britain gives up part of its banking industry in exchange for remaining in the market with a cap on immigration?

Labour could be highlighting the near-impossibility of delivering single market access and controlled immigration, highlighting the huge divisions within the Tory party on which is preferable, and coming up with its own clever solution.

Coming up with policies. Any policies

Labour doesn't know what it thinks about Trident. It doesn't know what we want from our negotiations with the EU. We don't really know what its policy on devolution is; or... well all that much at all at the moment.

We know it definitely opposes austerity.

Perhaps someone needs to point out to them that in one very key way they've accidentally won the argument on that one.

Labour needs some policies.

This summer, while the Tories busy themselves with their own regime change, might have been a good opportunity to think of some.